Is gamestop better to work at than mcdonalds?
Right now i work at mcdonalds and i hate it ive worked for about 3 weeks and the managers are idiots and flip out at me for telling me to do stuff ibe never been taught like making a parfait and stuff. Its either really boring there or intense depending on the time.i never get to work with any of the friends i applied to work there with. The money's all right but i hate the managers and im bad at all the jobs except for lobby and front counter but they always have me on the drivethrough and tell me to do stuff ive never been taught how to do. Im thinking about because it seems like it would be a pretty laid back place to work at unlike mcdonalds. Im not some hardcore gamer but i like to play nhl, cod, halo, and fallout and i know some stuff about games. A couple of my friends might work there too. You also get a 15% off on games and some free games and demos and stuff. And best of all (jk) a 30% off at barnes and noble for some reason!!! So if someone else who either worked at both or just gamestop what the atmosphere is like( laid back or intense) and how easy and over all good to work there. Ive read mixed reviews about it so i dont know. If someone could make like a pro cons list. I also have hockey literally every week day and sometimes on saturdays so i could only work on weekends in tye school year but any day in sumler if that chamges anything. Thanks!
What are the stations at McDonald's?
presenter- you present the food at the final window in drive through runner - you get the food and desserts ready for the presenter cashier- handle the money, the people pay you. order taker - the one with the headset on counter - you take orders from the dining room and present them with their food back - cook all the food fries - cook and bag the fries aaaand depending what mcdonalds you work at there may or may not be a McCafe - there you make coffees and other different drinks and serve cakes and cookies if your a girl you can do any of the them except cooking, and if your a boy you can cook and counter and sometimes order taker. orrr if your a manager you can do ALL of them
I have my first shift at McDonald’s tomorrow. What do I do when I first get there?
On my first day, I made the mistake of combing my hair in the dining room as soon as I got there. I had just got off my bike & walked in and it was windblown. The manager said something to me about it and that started us off on a bad foot. If you need to brush or comb your hair, do it in the bathroom mirror or better yet, outside. You can use your rearview mirror. Next, when the head cook guy told me to get a “Cheese call” I had no idea what to say, so I yelled out “Cheese call!!” They all laughed. I was supposed to yell “Cheese on two (three, four or however many) burgers” or “Cheese on (number of) Quarters”. OK, honest mistake. Then when I made the cherry pies - the old deep fried ones - I didn’t know to put them in the special basket that held them together as they fried. They fell apart and ruined the oil!! During rush hour in the middle of race week in Daytona Beach (Daytona 500)!!! McDonald’s with no French Fries?? It happened, and it was because of me. And the McDonald’s was right across the street from the racetrack!! I only worked a half day that day before he sent me home. Then the next day I was supposed to make some hamburgers. The day before I had made all the Quarter Pounders. When I finished making them, I put the onions on them without thinking about the hamburgers I had eaten there. The onions I put on were raw onions for the Quarter Pounders … Raw onion on a small burger really sets the taste off!! Try it sometime!! I was supposed to use the steamed onions on another table. Another half day and the manager called me into his office. He wished me lots of luck finding another job and told me he had to let me go … And I didn’t even demand $15.00 an hour!! That’s still not the end … When I went to leave, my bike had been stolen!! I started walking home - about halfway home it started raining!! I found another job about two weeks later at a small local factory. It paid better money than McDonald’s did anyway, so it wasn’t all a total waste. Then about a year later I started driving a cab for the next 25 yearsThis is the McDonald’s I worked for. Directly across the street is the Daytona Speedway. It’s two stories and is the largest McDonald’s in the area. It’s packed when the races are going on!! I’ve never been in it without thinking back on my two half days there!!
What's the strangest request you've had at McDonald’s?
“Can I get a free meal if I show you my tits?”It was late in the day but early in my graveyard shift when a bombshell blonde came through the drive-thru in a convertible and, out of nowhere, threw that out at me.“You had a Big Mac meal, right?” I said nervously, as my face turned deeper shades of red. She was stunning, with a reverse bob hairstyle and oozing confidence. I was a shy and socially inept eighteen-year-old, she looked to be in her early twenties. She looked like she has just left a party, not surprising for a store that was right next to a community college.“Yep!”“Ok, hold on.” I hastily grabbed the Big Mac from the heated landing zone (where food is kept warm) and threw it in a bag. I snatched a fry from the fry station, shoved napkins into the bag, and handed it out the window along with her drink, a Sprite I think.She looked at me blankly. “You don’t want to see my tits?”“You don’t have to…I mean, you, uh, you’re good to go,” I stammered.“Alright,” she muttered. I couldn’t tell if she was baffled or embarrassed. “Well, thank you,” was the last I ever heard of her. I paid for that meal out of my pocket, more than anything because I was flustered and just wanted to get on with the night.To this day I wonder about that lady. Did she go home afterward and consume her Big Mac in muted contemplation? Or did she shrug it off, if the tactic yielded free Big Macs? What would make a person place their dignity so low. I mean, McDonald’s?! Chick-fil-a, maybe, but not Mickey D’s.Anyhow, that’s the strangest request I’ve had in my time at McDonalds.Bonus:· A guy that called on Valentine’s Day and asked if we would cut a hamburger into a heart. Probably a prank.· A drunk guy that complained that his Whopper was cold and angrily slammed a Burger King bag on the counter.· The phone call from somebody, who sounded suspiciously like Jack Black, wanting to order a six-piece nugget with only four nuggets in the box cause he’s on a diet. Definitely a prank.· The huge body builder-looking dude that accused me of stealing his lunch when we were in jail a couple of weeks prior. I’ve never been to jail and he didn’t take his eye off me the whole time he sat in the lobby. I was sweating bullets.
Does working at McDonald's look good on a résumé?
Oh absolutely. I used to work at McDonald’s Australia myself and saw that so many people couldn’t handle it − our turnover was very high, but I was at a company-owned store (most are franchises) and we were run very professionally.The common complaint was “this job sucks”, then they’d quit within a few weeks of joining. As 50 Cent describes in his seminal work, The 50th Law, most people just aren’t willing to make the sacrifices it takes to get ahead. It can be years of working in a bad job for the eventual job that you really desire. If you can’t even last a few weeks because this job isn’t perfect, then you’re just not cut out for success.A further advantage I see in people of McDonald’s pedigree is that they’ve experienced customer service. Jeff Bezos claims that a trait of being an Amazonian is customer obsession, but he only worked in the kitchen at McDonald’s. When people were ordering from me, I couldn’t believe some of the events that took place when things didn’t go as planned:There’s a collection box for change that goes towards Ronald McDonald House − one customer managed to drop it on a baby’s head (in a pram).A customer upset that a burger didn’t look nice, wanting to get a new oneCustomers trying to trick me into giving the wrong change. I later worked as a Blackjack dealer, I couldn’t be tricked in that respect.Customers yelling over the counter, towards the kitchen, for them to hurry up with the burgers. These people looked like ordinary people, not cliché rednecks.I quickly learnt that mothers are absolutely the worst customers, even if they don’t have their children with them. They are demanding and they make mistakes, then they don’t accept any of the blame for their mistakes.If you last longer than a few weeks at McDonald’s, it shows that there’s probably an underlying satisfaction you get from serving customers. You don’t get tips and there’s no exciting career path, so there must be something appealing about this particular job.Photo by Crew on UnsplashIn hiring for tanuki.ai and barfly.ai, we’re performing customer analysis for bars, so if you have a proven record of caring about customers in hospitality, that puts you at a strong advantage.*Edit: Tanuki / Barfly has officially closed. My only job is now Bevrly | Wine Analytics and I still have a high regard for ex-hospitality people.
Is it really faster to use use the drive-thru at Starbucks?
It’s difficult to make sweeping generalizations about an entire industry.Here’s a study[1] conducted by QSR Magazine (QSR = quick serve restaurant). Some restaurants have longer average drive thru lines than others. Chick-fil-A, for example, has an average of 6.09 vehicles in their drive thru and takes an average of 203.88 seconds to serve any given drive thru customer.On the other end of the spectrum, Wendy’s takes an average of 133.63 seconds to serve a drive thru customer and has an average of 1.7 vehicles.So, as you can see, not all drive thru service is created equal and how fast you will get your order depends upon what restaurant we’re talking about.The same can be said with the lines inside. I don’t have any statistical information on foot traffic, but know I’ve seen very long drive thru lines at Starbucks while at the same time, when I went into the store, was served immediately. As I walked out with my drink, I see the cars in the drive-thru had moved forward only one or two positions.So your answer is, it is unclear if drive thru is faster than entering the store. It depends:upon the restauranthow many seconds they take to fill the average orderhow many cars are in the drive thruhow many people are standing in lineWith four variables (some of which may be swinging wildly), I think it is difficult to form any firm conclusions.Footnotes[1] The Drive-Thru Performance Study: Average Service Time
Why do people use profanity?
Teaching in a middle school, I see profanity used as a quick and easy response to a threat. Recently, a chubby, black 8th grader, new to our school of predominantly Hispanic students, executed a perfect example of the self-defense form of profanity. And then I gave him a different way to handle things.The fire drill siren blasted through my classroom during my planning period. Having no students, I was tempted to secretly remain in the school, but I followed suit and exited the building; holding the door open as class after class calmly filed through.Students are to remain silent, but one kid turned his head back and yelled, “You a fu€kin’ monkey’s A$$!” Then he ran ahead of the group and disappeared into the parking lot.“Hmmmm,” I thought. “I wonder what’s going on?”He was easy to find, being tall and darker than the others, so I (having no class to tend to) approached him.“Excuse me. I just heard you call someone a F’in Monkey’s A. Why did you say that?”He pulled the collar of his shirt over his mouth and looked around, trying to ignore my question.I continued, “All I heard was your remark, but I’m sure there’s SOME valid reason you said that, knowing we’re supposed to be quiet during a drill. What’s going on?”He relaxed a bit, looked at me, lowered his collar down to his chin and said, “Somebody said my face looks like a burnt biscuit.”“Oh, I see. Well that was rude!” I said. “But, you have to be careful with using profanity because all I heard was you, and you could have gotten in trouble. Plus, using swear words makes it look like you can be easily controlled.”I told him about the time a lady in the McDonald’s drive thru line honked at me. Instead of being rude, I asked if she wanted to pull ahead of me. She ended up apologizing.“But what am I supposed to do?” He asked. “I’m not gonna let people talk to me like that.”“Use your intelligence. A three-year-old can shout out a string of swear words, but not many people can stay cool and think of something clever. It takes practice though. But, you could’ve said..,”“That’s right! I’m the reason for the fire drill. My burnt biscuit face set off the alarm and now we get to get out of class. Yes, I am THAT powerful.”He let go of his shirt and actually laughed.Now, whenever I see him in the hall, he gives me a high five. Maybe he still uses profanity, I don’t know, but at least now he knows there are other options.